Home Health Line
02/17/2022
Staff shortages have followed many health care organizations into the new year and are likely to persist in the coming months. If your organization is experiencing a crunch, it may be time to abandon strategies from the past and look for new ideas to attract and retain staff members.
02/17/2022
As the economy continues to fluctuate and the workforce’s demands shift and change, the problem many companies are facing — too many open positions but not enough employees — continues. However, that doesn’t mean you should lower your recruiting standards.
02/17/2022
See the proportion of 30-day periods of care with only therapy, at least one therapy visit and no therapy visit, as well as the number of therapy visits patients received in 2020.
02/11/2022
Home visits will be selected based on unvaccinated staff assignments, rather than patient assignments. Unvaccinated staff will be targeted as a priority in order to validate compliance and effectiveness of the agency’s policies, procedures and infection control program.
02/11/2022
Recognize those forces driving nurses out in order to retain them, as burnout from the pandemic and big bonus offers from other providers continue to siphon top staff, including those in high-demand roles that are becoming more difficult to fill.
02/11/2022
For those coders performing both coding duties and partial OASIS review, it is most common for coders to complete six to 10 charts per day in 2021, compared with the 11 to 15 charts in 2020 and 13 to 15 charts in 2019.
02/11/2022
When patients are admitted into home health, it’s imperative that the care ramps up quickly to avoid unnecessary readmissions.
02/11/2022
With the end of OSHA’s health care ETS, what should agencies do when it comes to complying with the portions of the ETS that are no longer mandatory?
02/11/2022
Take a look at the number of charts coders worked on in an average day from the latest Home Health Coders' Productivity Survey.
02/03/2022
Don’t ask surveyors to show proof of their vaccination status. That’s one of the messages for providers that was included in a broader CMS announcement that on-site surveyors need to be vaccinated against COVID-19, too.

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